As I mentioned yesterday, now that we’re at mid-year, as someone who likes to take a look at how any of my previous card predictions went, I wanted to take a look at some of my 2024 Year Ahead readings, and see how the year is stacking up against them so far.
First up is this one. You should be able to click on the title to see the original full reading. The post was written on January 8th 2024, and the reading performed a few days before that. Bear in mind that influences and people in the same spread can represent more than one situation, and the prediction was primarily about “What would be in the news in 2024.”
Gypsy Oracle Cards Reading For Year Ahead 2024
So How Has It Done? What Has Come Up So Far?
Before we start, it’s worth a reminder on my two recent posts about a couple of different ways of reading big 52-card spreads like this one (I do still have another article still to come on this topic):
1. An Unpleasant Threat To A Wife: Catherine’s Illness & The “Where’s Kate?” Social Media Frenzy
Now, I didn’t use the Counting 9s method in my original Year Ahead post (I used fives instead, which is yet another variation), but just as a taster, when you do use 9s to get a summary message for, say the Wife card here, it does give some additional interesting messages.
This is in addition to what we can see around the Wife card here: a Young Woman, Gifts, Loyalty, but also a really nasty card beside her, the reversed Death card and the horribly destructive Misfortune card next to that. As you’ll see from my descriptions of card meanings, the Death card reversed suggested the following:
“Even more negative. Sorrows, danger, shame, draining of energy, impotence. Painful or violent event, or something ending due to deliberate maliciousness, hatred or malevolence. Disruptive ending, prolonged negativity, permanent loss or ending. Not a good time to make decisions. Watch out for serious enemies or dangerous, negative people.”
Very nasty stuff indeed. And although I did say this wasn’t a Royal reading per se and wasn’t intended to be, given what happened later, I do suspect this particular card was about Catherine and what’s happened to her this year.
Counting 9s on the Wife card for Catherine would have given us these predictive messages about her year upcoming.
Falseness, Child, Malady (R), Good Fortune (R), Hope
Falseness and lies concerning a child and a sickness that will either worsen or be recovered from, a situation of very bad luck but also hope.
And in the other direction:
Falseness, Despair, Waiting
Falseness and lies bring despair and desperation and a period of waiting or anticipation.
And on that reversed Death card, so what this entailed, here are the messages from Counting 9s:
Lover, Letter, Pleasure Seekers (R), Melancholy, Service (R)
An attack or “assassination” involving a male in her life, either her partner or another man and writings or information from destructive, crazy mobs brings sadness & negativity and a negative, untrustworthy male pretending to be on side but working behind the scenes
And in the other direction:
Lover, Sweetheart, Journey, Priest (R)
An attack or “assassination” involving a male in her life, his female partner, travel, and a manipulative, dark or corrupt advisory figure
So! I didn’t pick up on it, but the cards were telling us pretty much what did end up happening. And while I won’t do all of them here, but do feel free to try out this method for yourself on any other cards in this spread that interest you.
Here’s part of what else I did say on this topic, which mostly seems to have played out so far. The Widower appears to be Charles. But I don’t know who the “difficult older woman” is. It also suggested another female figure, a false female friend, so not for the first time, it appears there was someone close to home undermining her or perhaps giving away information.
There appears to be a particularly unpleasant threat around for a wife figure which will bring a major disaster, sorrow and tears.
We’ll be hearing news mainly about a dysfunction, illness or malady beginning to heal, although its opposite number, the reversed Money card, also suggests that financial losses will still be in the picture newswise.
It involves some kind of crazy and obsessive group behaviour perhaps signalling fanaticism, that has impacted an older man grieving the past. What this older figure is grieving for seems to involve more of a sense of love and togetherness.
A private or family issue going on with a difficult older woman where a sickness or something wrong is gradually improving which will make the news . Then they show a coming together to show loyalty in the face of what looks like serious danger or violence or an assassination threat.
A false female friend turns out to be a false servant too, perhaps a whistleblower, with the lack of expected rewards bringing despair and desperation. There is crazy, perhaps deranged, behaviour or obsessions apparent around a main Sweetheart female character, but the malady or dysfunction appears to be improving and healing with regard to much younger generations and kids. A new start is becoming possible. The yearning will finally be over, with the final answer coming via the news or being written about, and a loss of value or waste of money will be mourned by an older or senior male figure. Progress is made towards more coming together, gatherings and discussion of those who are able to see the business and financial problems and the possible fraudulent activities coming up ahead. So perhaps some grown ups will be back in the room.
Other Big Predictions
Here are some of the other big predictions that appear to be coming true: